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Anthropological history of Andean polities

John V. Murra, Nathan Wachtel and Jacques Revel
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of contributors (page vii)
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (JOHN V. MURRA and NATHAN WACHTEL, page 1)
  • Part I: Ecology and society (page 9)
    • 1. The tropical Andes: a changing mosaic (OLIVIER DOLLFUS, page 11)
    • 2. The evolution of a valley: population and resources of Tarapacá over a millenium (LAUTARO NÚÑEZ, page 23)
    • 3. "Horizons" in Andean archaeology (ANA MARÍA LORANDI, page 35)
  • Part II: The ethnic group and the state (page 47)
    • 4. The expansion of the Inka state: armies, war, and rebellions (JOHN V. MURRA, page 49)
    • 5. Storage, supply, and redistribution in the economy of the Inka state (CRAIG MORRIS, page 59)
    • 6. The extraction of precious metals at the time of the Inka (JEAN BERTHELOT, page 69)
    • 7. Vertical politics on the Inka frontier (FRANK SALOMON, page 89)
  • Part III: Systems of classifications (page 119)
    • 8. Some aspects of the Inka kinship system (FLOYD G. LOUNSBURY, page 121)
    • 9. The classification and naming of South American camelids (JORGE A. FLORES OCHOA, page 137)
    • 10. The semiology of Andean textiles: the talegas of Isluga (VERÓNICA CERECEDA, page 149)
  • Part IV: Symbolic representations and practices (page 175)
    • 11. Inka dynasty and irrigation: another look at Andean concepts of history (R. T. ZUIDEMA, page 177)
    • 12. Urco and uma: Aymara concepts of space (THÉRÈSE BOUYSSE-CASSAGNE, page 201)
    • 13. Mirrors and maize: the concept of yanantin among the Macha of Bolivia (TRISTAN PLATT, page 228)
    • 14. From asymmetry to triangle: symbolic transformations in northern Potosí (OLIVIA HARRIS, page 260)
  • Part V: From ethnic polities to communities (page 281)
    • 15. Men of water: the Uru problem (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) (NATHAN WACHTEL, page 283)
    • 16. The ethnic groups in the valleys of Larecaja: from descent to residence (THIERRY SAIGNES, page 311)
    • 17. The Andean community today (ANTOINETTE MOLINIÉ-FIORAVANTI, page 342)
  • Bibliography of published sources (page 359)
  • Index (page 377)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
HAHR 67.4 (Nov. 1987): 699-700 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2516050
MAN 22.4 (Dec. 1987): 762-763 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2803380
ETH 36.2 (Spring. 1989): 204-206 http://www.jstor.org/stable/482281
AE 16.2 (May. 1989): 400-401 http://www.jstor.org/stable/645025
AANTH 90.1 (Mar. 1988): 198-199 http://www.jstor.org/stable/678507
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781139244954 (ebook)
  • 9780521246675 (hardcover)
  • 9780521105392 (paper)
Subject
  • Native Peoples of the Americas
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